awwwwwwwwwwwww i'm so happy you like the idea!!!!

you make your own model at this website. you have to sign up etc.

http://mvm.com/cs/

Well it's nice to know that I have someone to relate to....but it also makes me feel sad that you're in the same Boat of Guilt as I am, lol.
I try to stick to around 1,100 calories a day....but man, yesterday was easily a 2,000 calorie day. I am so disgusted with my lack of self-control.
Not sure if you've tried a high fiber diet at all....but that USUALLY works for me. I eat probably two cups of Fiber One, and it keeps me full for quite a while and is only a couple hundred calories. I'd heard the same thing about eating lots of protein, but even protein would fill me up for maybe an hour at most. I need an intervention. I have seriously thought about hypnosis. lol

Fresno - 26 - i hope my earlier message didnt scare you - i know it's abit long, but if you have any further questions i'm happy to help!

Echo - No! You're wonderful!
However, for someone like me (i.e., no self control) I think it might be bad advice to eat whatever I want if I'm hungry....since I'm always hungry, and even when I eat slowly (which I did alllll day yesterday!) and drink a TON of water....I am still not satiated, and I go back for more an hour later. That would add up to a LOT of calories, lol. It's like a drug addiction.

My confession for today:

Exercise - 1 hour X stretch (p90x - day 7)

total number of steps = 3250 steps. (today was my p90x scheduled rest day, so i took it easy today hehe

no breakfast today, I was too tired to get up in the morning (before sunrise). (btw i'm fasting (ramadan - where you fast (abstain from water and food- from sunrise to sunset), so hence why i'm only confessing 2 meals these days ).

Dinner:
1 date, 1 large glass of water.
1/4 cup of fruit salad.

5 onion pakore (homemade by my parents today bless them, they saw a new recipe on tv) with some ketchup. 1/4 roti. Salad, one serving spoon of brown lentil soup.

dessert - 1 scoop of sweet carrot pudding (homemade - my mom made it - indian/pakistani sweet dessert - gajar ka halwa), with 1 scoop of cornish vanilla ice cream.

the meal sounds very decadent i know, but it's totally fine, cause I followed the 4 golden rules.
I took 40minutes to eat the entire meal, and s-l-o-w-l-y. and I stopped when I was comfortably full.

awww that's so nice of you to say
oh erm i'm not sure what to advice then. i know Paul Mckenna has these hypnotic cds aswell. but they cost abit.
sorry i cant be more help. it sounds like you're already eating slowly. which is really great!

Well it's true. I appreciate your support!
It's ok.... I think I need a miracle at this point, lol.
Thanks for your help! I have just gotta learn to be more strict with myself.

Thank you That's really nice of you to say
I just watched that youtube video link, did you get a chance to watch it? I liked what she said, that you should just be in a state of being NEUTRAL, neither hungry nor full. and thats the feeling you should go for.

i never thought of it like that before.

haha if that was the case, i would reach that state, after 2 bites lol. and be eating every couple of hours haha. i might try it though, and experiment hehe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRz8BEJLpi8

ps well done on you losing 17 lbs so far! that's really super!!

Yay! Glad to know you're in the same boat as me! Now we can support each other!

I'll give my calorie rundown too.

Breffix: 3 figs (111 cals)

Snack: Cali pizza kitchen flatbread melt (5 cheese&Spinach) (390 cals)

Lunch: Healthy Choice Steamer Chicken Marsala (250 cals)

Snack: Popcorn (100 cals), 2 figs (74 cals), 1.5 slices of low fat/cal blueberry cake (210 cals)

Dinner: 2 halves of 2 diff homemade pizza (765 cals)

Total cals: 1903 Dang. Guess I went overboard today. It was those damn pizzas. I make one batch of dough. It's made from 1.5 cups of flour, 1 tbsp olive oil, 3/4 tsp yeast, 1/2 cup warm water. The total cals of the crust is 720 cals. I had leftover chicken jalfrezi (curried veggies and chicken, totally yum!) and wanted to use it as a topping, but it wasn't enough to cover all the dough, so I decided to split the dough and top 1/2 with the jalfrezi and the other half with the usual veggies (onions, broccoli, mushrooms and my homemade ghetto tomato sauce). The one batch of dough rolls out to a thin crust 10" pizza, when I split them into two, it turned into two 8" pizzas with thin crusts. I don't know how this happened. All the magic of the universe collided in my kitchen tonight. Blah. Needless to say I was full.

Exercise: Calisthenics. Stretching, push ups, situps, jumping jacks, leg exercises for 30 mins.

Later gals. Congrats to all who made it through another day!!

Fresno - I'm just like you. I'm still learning how to eat slowly, but it is taking a lot of conscious effort on my part to eat that slowly and to control how much I eat. I also get hungry 30 mins after eating a meal but so far I've learned to be strict with myself and just drink water. If I MUST eat, I usually eat some grapes, watermelon, figs or blueberries. I only eat a 100 cal portion because I don't have good eyeballing skills. These are just coping mechanisms I use. Hopefully, they can help you too! Good luck!

coffee with creamer
water
banana

ham and cheese on a bagel
two pears
peach yogurt
milk
water

water
one bite of my son's pizza hoagy, sshhhhh

50 waists twists, 100 waist stretches

I am just not hungry for dinner and it is now past the time that I said I would not eat a meal or snack. I take a couple of medications and they often make me nausous, so some days I skip a meal. I know I should not be doing this on a regular basis but I just could not seem to come up with anything to fix tonight that would not further upset my stomach.

Good luck!!! I love your positive attitude!! you can do it!

great job Sunni, Cape and Hydra.

aww Hydra sorry you didnt get time to have dinner. but good idea on not eating when you werent hungry.

have a super day girls!